LibGuides: Subject Guides for Websites: WOMEN

WOMEN (History)

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
• http://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/feminae/Default.aspx
• Hosted by University of Iowa Libraries
• .edu
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Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. Books by a single author are not indexed. Includes: Children’s Books about Medieval Women and Gender, Encyclopedias and Other Reference Books, and Museum Exhibition Catalogs.
Monastic Matrix: A scholarly resource for the study of women's religious communities, 400-1600 CE
• https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/monasticmatrix/home
• University of Saint Andrews
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Provides access to primary and secondary sources on religious communities, biographical information on individual men and women important to women's religious history and associated with the communities; a glossary, bibliography, and an image file of related art.
Project Gutenberg
Provides thousands of full-text online copies of out-of-copyright works (published pre-1923). Classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries. Search by title, author, or subject.
Women’s History Sourcebooks
• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.asp
• Fordham University, Paul Halsall, Editor
• .edu
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A subsidiary of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project, this site provides links to public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.

Last update: 8/11/2021

Google Scholar

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a variation of Google. It is designed specifically for scholarly literature searches.

Advantages

It’s free to use.
It has a simple, familiar interface that works much like regular Google.
It finds scholarly books, articles, and conference papers from a wide range of disciplines.

Disadvantages

Coverage is not comprehensive. It is a good first place to start researching a paper, but not comprehensive enough to be the only place you look.
Criteria used for selecting “scholarly” materials is not given. Search results can be a mixture of articles and books as well as unpublished manuscripts, course syllabi, and high school term papers, so you must critically evaluate what you find.
Results are not always full-text or free like regular Google. Often the link for an article will take you to the publishers website where the full article is available only if you buy it.